Ring of Fire

See this picture? Looks like we're getting lots of rain in Louisiana. But there's this hole. And we're in the hole. The storms build and I swear they break up and go around us and form again on the other side. We watch the weather very closely here...not just because of hurricane season, although we watch for that too...but because of the drought. So we look at the radar fifty times a day probably. We're just to the north and west of Baton Rouge. But we're right there in the clear. Today, the storms are coming out of the south. But this line formed just north of us. We can see the dark thunderclouds off to the north. If it rains today, then we'll do fireworks tonight. If it doesn't, then we're hoping everyone in the area holds their fire for a day or two. But not everyone will. After the corn and the watermelons today and tomorrow, the garden will take a long slide towards the dead of summer. We'll still have the hot weather things, the eggplants and peppers and okra and beans. But the hardest longest workig days will taper off for a short while. During those weeks we'll be ordering seed for fall and planting flats. Will's melons are what he hoped for - a lot of them and excellent and sweet. But, in order to have these things on this table on this day, we had to do damage to the pond. It's a shame, but we're grateful we had the pond, or there would have been a pitiful garden this year. Most people just plowed their corn under, and both corn and watermelons need lots and lots of water to ripen. It will rain one day. We'll get some sort of tropical system sometime this season, I'm sure. As long as it's not another Katrina/Rita, we'll be grateful for the rain.